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New York

Political repression plays out state by state — shaped by local institutions, prosecutors, and movements for defense. These are the documented political prisoners and cases the census holds for New York.

2,077Documented
25In custody
1,084Released
7Awaiting trial

Eras of repression in New York

Where New York’s entries fall across the census’s historical eras.

1930s 715 1940s 176 1970s 173 1910s 169 1920s 165 1950s 161

Documented cases

2,077 entries in the census — every one stays in the record, whether the case is open or closed.

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Abe Potash
Abe Potash is named in the cleaners-dyers report explicitly, formerly employed at Municipal Dye Works, 265 Bel...
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Louis Preseto
Released
Louis Preseto was a Food Workers Industrial Union picket arrested outside the public market at 8615 Twentieth...
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Steven R. Pressman
Released
Steven R. Pressman was jailed for the March 1969 Stony Brook University library protest against university war...
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Zera Preston
Released
Zera Preston was a Delaware County, New York tenant farmer imprisoned after the August 7, 1845 killing of Unde...
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William A. Price
Released
William A. Price was a New York Daily News reporter fired after he refused to answer the Senate Internal Secur...
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Gabriel Probes
Released
Gabriel Probes was arrested in August 1918 with co-defendants Jacob Abrams, Mollie Steimer, Samuel Lipman, Hym...
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Karl Przibislawsky
Karl Przibislawsky was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on Feb...
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Lorenzo Pullany
Lorenzo Pullany was a striker at the Diana Shoe Company in Brooklyn. The Daily Worker of November 15, 1932 rep...
C
C. Quadrillo
C. Quadrillo was individually named among Purity bakery pickets arrested on suspicion in New York during the n...
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Jose Quinones
Jose Quinones (printed alias Papo) is individually named in the March 1973 Attica News roster of Attica uprisi...
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Ruiz Quintana
Ruiz Quintana is individually named in the March 1973 Attica News roster of Attica uprising prisoner defendant...
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Celia Rabinowitz
Celia Rabinowitz was one of the fur-market workers individually named as actually arrested in the July 26, 192...
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Mildred Rackley
Mildred Rackley led artists and models protesting denial of WPA Federal Art Project jobs in New York. The May...
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Alex Rafel
Alex Rafel was among Brooklyn shoe workers reported convicted of assault on May 6, 1930. Sentencing was announ...
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Victoria Raffe
Victoria Raffe was arrested during a New York relief-station demonstration, according to the July 17, 1934 ret...
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Nathaniel Ragsdale
Nathaniel Ragsdale was a Tombs prisoner and elected inmate representative prosecuted over the October 1970 Man...
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Matthew Rammelkamp
Released
Matthew Rammelkamp pleaded guilty in 2001 to one count of arson conspiracy related to ELF-claimed fires at Lon...
M
Miguel Ramos
Released
Miguel Ramos, with Dyshika McFadden and Tindal, used an aerosol can and open flame to set fire to an RPD vehic...
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Jack Rand
Jack Rand, relief workers activist, was arrested with Paul Block and another activist while distributing leafl...
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Teodoro Randi
Teodoro Randi was a civilian internee recorded in actual custody at Ellis Island, New York Harbor, on February...
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John F. Randolph
Released
John F. Randolph was a Socialist from Auburn, New York. John F. Randolph received a sentence of ten years, whi...
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Peter Randolph
Released
Peter Randolph was a cook from Auburn, New York. Peter Randolph was sentenced to ten years in prison. He serve...
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Rapoport
Rapoport, a knitgoods-department organizer for the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, was briefly arreste...
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Joseph Rappaport
Released
Joseph Rappaport was an organizer for the Joint Council of Knitgoods Workers during the 1936 textile-trimmers’...

Institutions in New York

Prisons, jails, and detention centers in New York that appear in the census’s case files.

Ellis Island Immigration StationNew York, New York
215 cases
Fort LafayetteNew York, New York
201 cases
Manhattan House of Detention (the Tombs)New York, New York
21 cases
Attica Correctional FacilityAttica, New York
20 cases
Sing Sing Correctional FacilityOssining, New York
15 cases
Ellis IslandNew York, New York
15 cases
Metropolitan Correctional Center, New YorkNew York, New York
13 cases
Metropolitan Correctional CenterNew York, New York
10 cases